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Passed  at  the  January  Session,  1872,  as^  Amended 
at  the  January  Session,  1874:^ 


BY-LAWS,  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS 


FOR   THE   GUIDANCE  OP 


TEACHERSAND  SCHOOL  OFFICERS 


Public  Schools  of  Maryland. 


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MAEYLAND 


PASSED   AT   THE 


JA.NUA.KY    SESSION",    1872, 


AS   AMENDED    AT   THE 


JANUARY  SESSION,   1874. 


Published   for  the   State   Board   of  EdTjcation. 


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BALTIMORE: 

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PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAW  OF  MARYLAND. 


PASSED  AT  THE  JANUARY  SESSION,  1872,  AS  AMENDED  AT 
THE  JANUARY  SESSION,  1874. 


Be  it  enacted  hy  the  General-  Assembly  of  Mary- 
land, That  the  Act  passed  at  the  session  of  eighteen 
hundred  and  seventy,  entitled  an  Act  to  repeal  an 
act  passed  at  the  session  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-eight,  entitled  Public  Education,  providing  a 
system  of  Free  Public  Schools  for  the  State  of  Mary- Repealed, 
land,  and  to  repeal  all  laws  inconsistent  therewith, 
be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed,  and  re-enacted  ^"^^^^  • 
so  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  And  he  it  enacted,  That  there  shall  be    Free  public 
tliroughout  the  State  of  Maryland  a  general  system  schools, 
of  Free  Public  Schools,  according  to  the  provisions 
of  this  Act. 

Sec.  2.  And  he  it  enacted,  That  this  Act  shall  be    ^(j(jition  to 
added  to  the  Code  of  Public  General  Laws,  under  Code, 
the  title  ^^  Public  Education,''  and  that  all  existing 
laws  inconsistent  herewith  be,  and  the  same  are, 
hereby  repealed. 


Chapter  I. — Supervision. 

Section  1.  Educational  matters  affecting  the  State, 
and  the  general  care  and  supervision  of  public  edu- 


State  Board. 


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cation   shall    be   entrusted    to   a    State   Board   of 
Education. 

County  Board      ^^^-  ^-  Educational  matters  affecting    ^  county    ^^« 
shall  be  under  the  control  of  a  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners. 


Dist.  Board. 


Sec.  3.  Educational  matters  affecting  a  school 
district  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  a  Board  of 
District  School  Trustees. 


Chapter  II, — Formation  of  Boards. 

Section  1.  The  G-overnor,  by  and  with  the  advice 

Formation  of  ^^^   consent  of  the  Senate,  shall  appoint  at  every 

State  Board,   regular   session   of  the   General   Assembly,    from 

among  the  Presidents  and  Examiners  of  the  several 

County  Boards,  four  persons  (one  of  whom  shall  be 

^a  resident  of  the  Eastern  Shore),   who,   together 

t^Yry-tyi.jdL-^t/Lf  with  the  Governor  and  the  Principal  of  the  State 

'»         /jc-^  {    Normal  School,  shall  constitute  the  State  Board  of 

t*^  '^^'^^/vjiducation. 

II  I  ^^^f^^  Sec,  2.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commission- 
Term  of  Ser-  ers  shall  be  composed  of  three  persons,  appointed  by 
the  Judges  of  the  Circuit  Courts,  to  serve  for  two 
yearg  from  the  first  day  of  January  next  succeeding 
said  appointment,  and  until  their  successors  shall 
Proviso.  Q.ualify  ;  provided,  that  in  counties  having  over  one 
hundred  schools  five  persons  shall  be  appointed. 

Sec.  3.  The  Board  of  District  School  Trustees 
p..  ^  ,  .  shall  be  composed  of  three  persons,  who  shall  be 
Trustees.  appointed  by  the  County  School  Commissioners  on 
the  first  day  of  May,  or  at  their  first  meeting  there- 
after in  each  year_,  and  who  shall  meet  within  thirty 
days  after  their  appointment,  and  enter  upon  the 
duties  assigned  them  in  chapter  five  of  this  Act. 
At  their  first  meeting  they  shall  appoint  a  chair- 
man, to  hold  office  for  one  year,  and  shall  give 
notice  of  the  appointment  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners. 


OF  MARYLAND. 


Chapter  III,, — Duties  of  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion. 

Section  1.  The  State  Board  of  Education   shall 
hold  regular  meetings   on   the   last  Wednesday  in  Meetings. 
May,   August,    Noveinher  and  Februar}^   of  every 
year,  and  special  meetings  as  occasion  may  require. 

Sec.  2.  Tlie  office  of  the  Board  shall  he  in  the  q^^^^ 
State  Normal  School. 

Sec.  3.  The  members  of  the  board  shall  receive 
no  salary,  but  actual  expenses  incurred  in  attend- 
ing meetings  of  the  board,  and  they  are  authorized  No  Salary, 
to  employ  clerical  assistance  when  necessary ;  the 
Treasurer,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  Comptroller,  is 
hereby  authorized  to  pay  the  President  of  the  Board 
such  amount,  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  ^^^  P^^^^^'*- 
per  annum,  as  he  shall  show  to  be  due  for  these 
necessary  expenses. 

Sec.  4.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall,  to  the  j.  „, 
best  of  their  ability,  cause  the  provisions  of  this  law  state  Board, 
to  be  carried  into  effect,  and  may,  if  necessary,  in- 
stitute legal  proceedings  for  that  purpose,  with  the 
direction  and  advice  of  the  Attorney  General ;  they 
shall  enact  by-laws  for  the  administration  of  the 
Public  School  System,  not  at  variance  with  this 
Act,  and  shall  have  the  power  to  suspend  or  remove 
any  examiner  ot  teacher  who  may  be  found  inefficient 
in  or  incompetent  for  the  discharge  of  duties 
assigned  him,  or  guilty  of  such  moral  delinquency 
as  may  have  unfitted  him  for  the  office  he  holds  ; 
they  shall  explain  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of 
the  law,  and  they  shall  decide,  without  expense  to 
the  paries  concerned,  all  controversies  and  disputes 
that  may  arise  under  it. 

Sec.  5.  They  shall  have  the  general  care  and 
supervision  of  the  Public  School  interests  of  the  Have  gen- 
State  ;  Shall  act  as  assistants  and  advisers  of  the  supervision, 
various  County  Boards  ;  and  shall,  from  time  to 
time,  issue  circular  letters  to  teachers  and  commis- 
sioners on  topics  connected  with  the  administration 
of  public  schools. 


6  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LA  W 

Sec.  6.  In  order  to  insure  uniformity  in  the  sta- 
in reportT^*^  tistical  reports  of  the  public  schools,  they  shall  issue 
a  uniform  series  of  blanks  for  the  use  of  teachers 
and  of  County  Boards,  and  shall  require  all'  accounts 
to  be  kept  and  returns  to  be  made  according  to  these 
forms. 

Examine     ^^^'  ^-  They  shall,  when  requested  by  the  Board 
candidates,     of  County  School  Commissioners,  examine  candi- 
dates for  the  office  of  County  examiner,  and  give  a 
certificate  of  qualification. 

Sec.  8.  They  may  grant  to  teachers  of  long  ex- 
fi^tes*  perience   and    established    reputation    professional 

certificates,  which  shall  be  valid  until  revoked  for 
cause.  * 

Sec.  9.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  be, 

ex-officioj  trustees  of  the  State  Normal  School ;  and 

^J^^^^«*^^^^^  the  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School  shall  be, 

ex-qfficioj  a  trustee  of  the  State  Agricultural  College. 

Sec.  10.  All  schools  and  colleges  receiving  any 
To  report  State  donation  shall  make  a  report,  on  or  before  the 
annually.  fifteenth  day  of  November  in  each  year,  of  such 
matters  and  in  such  form  as  the  State  Board  of 
Education  shall  require  ;  and  said  reports,  or  an 
abstract  therefrom,  shall  be  published  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  in  his  annual  school  report. 


Chapter  1Y. —Duties  of  the  County  ScJiool  Commis- 
sioners. 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  County  School  Comrais* 
Organization,  sioners  shall  meet  for  organization  on  the  first 
Tuesday  in  January  next  succeeding  their  appoint- 
ment, or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be,  and  elect  a 
person  not  a  member  of  the  board,  who  shall  serve 
as  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Examiner  ;  and  notice 
of  such  election,  signed  by  the  President  of  the 
board,  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  Comptroller  ; 
provided,  that  in  counties  having  more  than  eighty- 
five  schools,  the  board  may  at  their  discretion  ap- 
point one  assistant  examiner  and  fix  his  salary. 


OF  MARYLAND.  ^ 

The  board  shall  meet  once  in  q^qvj  school  term, 
and  at  other  times  if  necessary,  for  the  transaction 
of  business  ;  each  commissioner  shall  receive  per 
day  for  each  day  of  his  attendance  at  the  board,  or 
on  committees  appointed  by  the  board,  such  pay  as 
is  allowed  the  County  Commissioners  in  the  several 
counties  of  the  State ;  provided^  that  the  aggregate 
amount  paid  in  one  year  to  commissioners  as  per  ^^^^^^• 
diem,  or  any  other  compensation,  shall  not  exceed 
an  average  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  commis- 
sioner. 

Sec.   2.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners is   hereby  declared  to  be  a  body  politic  and  Incorporated, 
corporate,  by  the  name  and  style  of  the  Board  of 
County  School  Commissioners  of  — - — -^-^^  county, 
and  by  that  name  shall  have  perpetual  succession,      Name  and 
and  shall  be  capable  to  sue  and  be  sued,  to  have  and  style. 
use  a  common  seal,  and  the  same  at  their  pleasure 
to  alter  or  break,  and  to  exercise  all  the  powers  and 
privileges  hereby  granted  to  or  vested  in  them  ;  and 
every  County  School  Commissioner  shall  have  power 
to  take  affidavits  and  administer  oaths  in  all  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  public  schools,  but  without  charge 
or  fee. 

Sec.  3.  All  the  property,  estate,  effects,  money, 
funds,  claims,  and  State  donations,  now  vested  by  Property 
law  in  the  public  school  authorities  of  any  county,  transferred  to 
for  the  use  and  benefit  of  public,  primary,  free  or 
high  schools,  are  hereby  transferred  to  and  vested 
in  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  and 
their  successors  in,- office. 

Sec.  4.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners shall  have  the  general  supervision  and  con-  General 
trol  of  all  schools  in  their  respective  counties  ;  they  ^^P^^^^*^^^^ 
shall  build,  repair  and  furnish  school-houses  ;  they 
shall  fix  the  salaries  of  teachers,  they  shall  purchase 
and  distribute  text-books,  and  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  as  may  be  necessary  to  secure  an  effi- 
cient administration  of  the  public  school  system, 
subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  law. 


8  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAW 

.  Sec.  5.  The  State  School  tax  and  free  school  fund 

tliisact/^^^  are  primarily  intenrled,  under  this  Act,  to  pay  the 
salaries  of  the  teachers  of  the  several  counties,  and 
to  provide  school  hooks  and  stationery  for  the  chil- 
dren of  the  State.  If,  however,  in  apportioning 
the  said  State  school  tax  among  the  different  coun- 
ties and  the  City  of  Baltimore,  the  share  of  any 
Contingency  county  should  prove  inadequate  for  the  purposes 
aforesaid,  then  the  County  Commissioners  of  such 
county  are  hereby  authorized,  empowered,  directed 
and  required  to  levy  and  collect  such  a  tax  upon  the 
assessable  property  of  such  county  as  the  Board  of 
.  County  School  Commissioners   shall   designate  as 

sufficient  to  make  good  the  deficiency ;  provided, 
said  tax  shall  not  exceed  ten  cents  in  the  hun- 
dred dollars,  unless  the  County  Commissioners  shall 
approve  and  sanction  an  additional  tax.  The  taxes 
so  levied  and  collected  shall  be  paid  quarterly,  on 
the  day  fixed  for  the  payment  of  the  State  school 
tax  to  the  several  counties  ;  (but  the  proceeds  from 
special  taxes  may  be  paid  oftener_,  upon  the  order  of 
the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  said  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners,) in  order  that  the  schools  of  said  coun- 
ties may  be  kept  open  for  the  time  herein  set  forth, 
and  said  tax  shall  be  levied  and  collected  as  other 
taxes.  Any  sums  of  money  which  may  have  been 
specially  collected  or  levied  on  any  election  or  school- 
house  district,  for  educational  purposes  connected 
with  these  disti'icts,  shall  be  collected  for  and  ap- 
plied to  the  purposes  so  intended  originally,  and 
shall  be  used  for  no  other  purpose  ;  and  if  said 
funds  have  been  used  otherwise  they  shall  be  re- 
turned and  applied  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  6.  In  all  cases  where*  the.  county  has  not 

committee  ^o  ^^^^  properly  divided  into  school  districts,  and  full 

divide.  records   of   the  boundaries   thereof  have   not  been 

made  and  recorded,   the  Board  of  County  School 

Commissioners  shall  appoint  a  committee  if,  in  their 

opinion,  they  deem  it  necessary,  consisting  of  three 

persons    of  intelligence  and   sound  judgment,  who 

shall  divide  the  county  into  suitable  school  districts, 

and   define  and  describe  the  boundaries  of  each  ; 

Proviso.         provided,   that  no   school   district  shall  contain  a 


OF  MARYLAN-D.  9 

greater  area  than  four  miles  square,  unless  a  part 
of  it  be  located  in  a  thinly  settled  region.     In  the 
formation   of   the  school   districts,   the   committee 
shall  take  into  consideration  the  most  suitable  site 
for   tlie  school-house,    the   general  features   of  the     rp^  niake 
country,  and  shall  make  each  school  district  of  such  accurate    de- 
size  and  form  as  will  best  accommodate  tlie  popula-^cription     of 
tion  within  its  bounds.     The  committee  shall  make  ^^  ^^^  ^• 
an  accurate  description  of  the  bounds  of  the  school 
districts,  accompanied  b}'  a  plat^  and  shall   report 
the  same  to  the  Board  of  County  Scliool  Commis- 
sioners, who  shall  thereupon  give  notice  in  all  the 
newspapers  of  the  county  at  what  time  ^hey  will 
meet  to  hear   applications  for  a  change  of  bounda- 
ries,, which  applications  shall  be  made  in  writing, 
and  within  two   months  from  the  date  of  the  first 
publication  of  such  notice.     When  the  application    May  change 
shall  have  been   ma'de  and  considered,  the  Board  of  boundaries. 
County  School  Commissioners  may  then  change  the 
boundaries   of  school  districts,  and  revise  tlie  de- 
scription ;  or  they  may,  without  application,  make 
such  change  as  may  be  deemed  important,  or  they 
may  ratify  and  confirm  the  report  of  the  committee. 
The  description  at  the  boundaries  of  school  districts 
shall  be  recorded  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose  by     Description 
the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners.    In  those  counties  where  no  newspaper 
is  published,  the  notice  of  application  for  a  change 
of  boundaries  shall  be  published  in  such  a  manner 
as  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  may 
decide.     Whenever  it  may  be  necessary,  the  Boai-d 
of  County  School   Commissioners   shall   employ   a 
Surveyor  to  aid  the  committee  in  the  performance  of     Employ  a 
such  duty,  and  they  shall  allow  the  Surveyor  such  ^^^^^3^^^'- 
compensation  for  his  services  as  may  be  just  and 
jDroper  ;  and  the  committee  shall   receive  no  com- 
pensation whatever  for  their  services.     The  cost  of     ^.  „ 
dividing   the   county  shall   be  paid  by  the  County  diyjfiijig 
School  Commissioners  out  of  the  school  fund  of  the 
county.     If  a  county  has  already  been  divided  into 
school  districts,  and  it  may  be   necessary  to  revise 
the  same,  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 
shall  have  full  power  to  make  such  revision  or  altera- 
tion as  may  be  necessary  to  accommodate  the  popu- 
lation  and  increase  the  efficiency   of  the   schools. 


10  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAW 

A  full  description  of  such  changes  and  alterations 
shall  also  he  made  and  recorded  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  7.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commission- 
j.^^ff^^'^^^^ers  shall,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  November 
in  every  year,  make  a  report  to  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  in  such  form  as  may  be  prescribed  b}' 
the  latter,  of  the  schools  and  all  matters  affecting 
the  educational  interests  of  the  county  ;  they  shall 
Publishalso  publish  annually,  in  the  month  of  November, 
re€dpts^^  and  ^^  ^^^^^^  ^"^^^  ^^^  manner  as  they  may  deem  proper, 
disbursem'ts.  a  statement  of  their  receipts  and  disbursements, 
including  the  money  received  and  expended  on  ac- 
count of  text  books,  and  a  statement  of  the  indebt- 
edness of  the  Board  at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year, 
and  forward  a  copy  to  the  State  Board  of  Education. 

Sec.  8.  In  case  of  the  death  o*f  any  County  School 
Vacancies,  Commissioner,  or  his  resignation  or  removal  from 
^^     ^^  ■      the  county,  or  disqualification  from  any  legal  cause, 
the   Judges  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  Judicial 
District  where  the  vacancy  occurs  shall  have  power 
to  appoint  a  qualified  person  to  fill  the  vacancy. 
In  case  of  inefficiency,  refusal  to  act,  or  breach  of 
trust,  the   Board  may,  by  a  vote  of  a  majority  of 
cant^  ^^^  ^^'  i^^  members,   declare  the  office  vacant,  and  give 
notice  to  the   party  concerned.     An   appeal   may 
be  taken  to  the  State  Board  of  Education,  whose 
decision  shall  be  final ;  but  if  no  appeal  be  taken 
within  ten  days,  the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  as  here- 
inbefore provided. 

Sec.   9.  No   teacher,   in   actual   employment   as 

Teachersnotguch,  shall  fill  the  position  of  County  School  Corn- 
to  be  commis-      •     •  *  •  "^ 
cinnprc           missioucr. 


Chapter  Y. — Duties  of  the  District  School 
Trustees. 

Duties  of  Section  1.  The  Board  of  District  School  Trustees 
board  district  shall  have  the  care  of  the  houses  and  lands  con- 
tees!^      ^^^^'  Elected  therewith  intended  for  school  purposes,  also 

the  furniture,  apparatus  and  other  school  property  ; 

they  shall  attend  to  all  repairs,   and  charge  the 


OF  MABTLAND.  11 

cost  among  the  incidental  expenses  of  the  school, 
to  be  paid  out  of  the  tax  levied  upon  the  assess- 
able property  of  the  county,  as  herein  provided 
for  ;  provided,  that  when  repairs  are  to  be  paid  out  ' 
of  a  county  school  tax,  the  amount  to  be  expended  ^^^^^• 
for  said  repairs  shall  be  determined  by  the  Board 
of  County  Scliool  Commissioners  before  the  repairs 
are  made.  The  Board  shall  employ  a  teacher  or 
teachers,  subject  to  confirmation  by  the  Board  of 
County  School  Commissioners,  from  among  those 
persons  who  hold  the  certificate  required  by  this 
Act.  They  shall  exercise  a  general  supervision 
over  their  respective  schools,  and  visit  them  fre- 
quently, and  shall  cause  instruction  to  be  given  for 
ten  months  in  the  year,  if  possible. 

Sec.   2.  The  Board  of  District  School  Trustees     Out - Ijuiid- 
shall  see  that  every  school-house  site  is  provided  ings. 
with  suitable  out-buildings. 

Sec,  3.  No  school-house  shall  be  used  for  any 
other   purpose  than   public   school   purposes,    and    ^^^  %f/*^ 
scbool  district  meetings,  unless  by  consent  of  the  pJ^^L,Qggg^ 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners,  or  a  ma- 
jority of  them. 

Sec.    4.     Contiguous   portions    of    two   or    more 
school-house  districts  may,  with  the  consent  of  the     Contiguous 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners,  combine  {ij^t^j-i^tj^^ may 
and  form  a  new  school-house  district;  and  when  combine, 
thus  formed,  the  said  new  school-house  district  shall 
be  invested  with  all  the  rights   and  powers  herein- 
before set  forth  as  pertaining  to  such  districts  ;  pro- 
vided,   that    the    new   school-house    district    thus  ^^^^'^^.^• 
formed,  or  said  district  from  which  it  may  be  formed, 
shall  not  contain  less  than  thirty-five  legal  rcvsident 
voters. 

Sec.  5.  In  case  of  neglect  of  duty,  or  refusal  to 
act,  on  the  part  of  the  members  of  the  Board  of^^J®^*^^;*^" 
Trustees,  their  places  shall  be  declared  vacant  by 
the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners,  who 
shall  fill  the  same  by  new  appointments  ;  but  if  it 
be  found  impossible  to  secure  competent  persons 
who  will  act  in  this  capacity,  then  the  duties  of  the 


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Board  of  District  School  Trustees  for  the  particuhir 
district  shall  devolve  upon  the  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners. 


Chapter  VI. — Scliool-liouses  and  Sites.- 

Select  site  for  SECTION  1.  It  shall  he  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
school- houses  County  School  Commissioners  to  select  a  suitable 
school-house  site  in  each  district,  whenever  the  ne- 
cessities of  "the  public  schools  demand  a  change  of 
site  or  sites  already  built  upon,  or  a  new  school- 
house  to  be  built. 

Receive  dona-  Sec.  2.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commission- 
Tmrchase^Si  ^^^  ^^^^'  receive  donations  of  such  sites  or  locations 
and  lease'.  fo^'  school-houses,  or  of  liouses  already  built,  adapted 
to  school  purposes,  and  suitably  located,  or  may 
purchsae  the  same,  but  in  no  case  shall  any  site  be 
built  upon  or  any  house  be  occupied,  until  a  good 
and  sufficient  title,  shall  have  been  obtained  for  the 
same,  in  the  corporate  name  of  the  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners,  In  cases  where,  however, 
the  property  owned  by  the  Board  of  County  School 
Commissioners  in  any  school  district  proves.unsuited 
for  school  j)urposes,  the  Board  is  authorized  to  sell 
or  lease  the  same,  and  to  appropriate  the  amount 
obtained  by  such  sale  or  lease  to  the  purchase  or 
lease  of  a  proper  school-house  at  a  suitable  location 
for  the  said  district. 

Sec.  3.  When  the  lands  shall  be  required  for  the 
Unable  to  site   of  a  school-liouse,  or  for   enlarging  a  school- 

iTndrequired!  ^^^"^^  ^^*'  ^"^^  *^^  ^^^^'^  ^^  County  School  Com- 
missioners shall,  from  any  cause,  be  unable  to 
contract  with  the  owner  thereof,  the  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners  may  apply  for  a  writ  of  ad 
'    ,  quod  damnum  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  for 

the  county,  who  shall  forthwith  issue  the  same,  and 
Tomakein-*^^  Sheritf  shall   execute  the  said  writ,  and  return 

quisition.  an  inquisition  describing  the  land  and  stating  the 
amount  of  damages  to  be  paid  to  the  owner,  and  the 
judge  of  theCircuit  Court  for  the  county  may,  at  any 
time  after  the  return  of  the  inquisition,  in  term  or 
during  recess^  hear  a  motion  to  confirm  such  inquisi- 


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tioDj  on  such  notice  to  the  parties  as  he  may  direct, 
and  confirm  or  quash  the  same  ;  and  if  he  quashes 
the  inquisition  he  shall  order  a  new  one  forthwith 
to  he  taken^  but  no  lot  so  taken  or  enlarged  shall 
exceed,  in  the  whole,  one  acre,  including  the  land 
occupied  by  the  school  building. 

Sec.  4.  In  all  cases  when  school-house  sites  are 
thus  purchased  or  condemned,  the  cost  thereof  shall  j^^^^^p^^^ 
be  paid  as  other  school-house  property  is  paid  for. 

Sec.  5.    Every  school-house   shall  be  built   and 
furnished  according. to  plans  and  drawings  issued  and  furnished 
from  the  office  of  the  County  School  Commissioners. 


Chapter  YI I .  — ScJiools.. 

SECTto:??  L  The  schools  under  the  charge  of  the^  ,.       . 
Board  of  County  School    Commissioners    tor    each        "^ 
county,     shall    respectively   be    designated   school 
number   one,   two,    three,  and   so   forth-,   of  their 
respective  election  districts. 

Sec.  2.  In  every  school-house  district  in  each 
county,  established  as  hereinafter  provided,  there  ^e^t^op^en"  ^^ 
shall  be  kept  for  ten  months  in  each  year,  if  pos- 
sible, one  or  more  schools,  according  to  population, 
which  shall  be  free  to  all  w^hite  youths  over  six  and 
under  t wen tjvone  years  of  age. 

Sec.  3.  In  every  district  school  there  shall  be  t,.  r 
taught  orthography,  reading,  writing,  English  i^e  tauo-ht.^ 
grammar,  geography,  arithmetic,  history  of  the 
United  States^  and  good  behavior.  Algebra,  book- 
keeping, natural  philosophy,  the  constitution  of  the 
United  States,  the  constitution  of  the  State  of  Mary- 
land, and  the  history  of  Maryland,  vocal  music, 
drawing,  physiology,  the  laws  of  health,  and  do- 
mestic economy  shall  also  be  taught  whenever  the 
Board  of  District  School  Trustees  shall  deem  it 
expedient ;  and  in  districts  where  there  is  a  con- 
siderable German  population,  the  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners  are  authorized  to  cause  the 
German  language  to  be  taught,  if  they  shall  think 
proper  so  to  do. 


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Sec.  4.  Whenever  a  school  numbers  more  than 
be ^employeY  ^^*3^  children  in  average  attendance,  an  assistant 
"  may  be  employed  by  the  Board  of  County  School 
Commissioners  ;  and  for  every  additional  forty  chil- 
dren one  teacher  may  be  appointed,  and  the  Board 
of  County  School  Commissioners  shall  direct  the 
division  of  the  pupils  so  as  to  form  a  graded  school. 

Sec.  5.  Whenever  the  number  of  children  attend- 
May  grade  ing  school  in  any  school  district  is  greater  than  one 
scioos.  hundred,  then  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 

missioners may,  with  the  consent  of  the  Board  of 
District  School  Trustees,  establish  schools  of  dif- 
ferent grades,  or  the  school  district  may  be  divided  ; 
and  whenever  the  average  attendance  in  any  school 
for  any  two  consecutive  terms  is  less  than  ten 
pupils,  then  the  said  schools  may  be  closed  by  the 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners ;  provided j 
May  close  that  the  Board  of  District  School  Trustees  may 
keep  the  school  open  in  part  at  the  expense  of  the 
district,  and  shall  receive  their  proportion  of  the 
school  fund  for  said  school,  rating  a  full  school  at 
twenty  scholars. 

^      .     ,  Sec.  6.  Public  examinations  shall  be  held  in  each 

*  school  twice  a  year,  of  which  due  notice 'shall  be 
given,  that  parents  and  others  interested  in  educa- 
tion' may  attend. 

Sec.  ^.  School  shall  be  kept  open  each  week-day. 
Hours  for  except  Saturday,  for  six  hours;  and  the  hours  for 
^'        teaching  shall  be  regulated  by  the  several  Boards 
of  County  School  Commissioners. 

Sec.  8.  Any  person  who  shall  disturb  any  public 
Penalty  for  school  in  session,  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof  be- 
disturbing.  f^^Q  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and  shall  forfeit  and  pay  twenty  dol- 
lars, to  be  collected  as  other  lines,  to  be  paid  to  the 
Board  of  District  School  Trustees  for  the  benefit  of 
the  school-house  district ;  or  said  offender  shall  be 
imprisoned  not  exceeding  thirty  days  ;  or  both,  in 
the  discretion  of  the  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

Terms.  Sec.  9.  The  school  year   shall   be   divided  into 


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four  terms,  whicli  shall  be  designated  the  fall  term, 
winter  term,  spring  term,  and  summer  term  ;  and 
the  time  of  beginning  and  closing  each  term  shall 
be  regulated  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners ;  provided,  that  the  financial  reports  of  pj.^^jgQ 
the  schools  of  the  State  shall  be  made  up  and  ren- 
dered to  the  thirtieth  day  of  September  inclusive, 
of  each  and  every  year  ;  and  provided  further ,  that 
there  shall  be  no  change  in  or  encroachment  upon 
the  holidays  and  vacations  set  forth  and  established 
in  the  following  paragraph: 

The  month  of  August  shall  be  vacation  through- 
out  the  whole  State,  and  the  following  days  shall  ^^^'^^3^^' 
be  holidays,  viz :  Thanksgiving  day,  from  Christmas 
Eve  to  the  first  day  of  January  inclusive,  Washing- 
ton's birthday,  the  fourth  day  of  July,  from  the 
Friday  before  Easter  to  the  Monday  after  Easter 
inclusive,  and  the  Monday  of  Whitsuntide ;  and 
the  remaining  month  of  vacation  shall  be  fixed  and 
designated  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners, to  subserve  the  convenience  and  advantage 
of  their  respective  counties.  In  case  it  may  be 
necessary  to  open  school  for  a  fraction  of  a  term,  it 
shall  close  at  the  end  of  the  term,  and  all  accounts 
shall  be  settled  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
County  School  Commissioners,  held  at  the  close  of 
the  term. 


Chapt&r  VIII. — Teachers. 

Section  1.  No  person  shall  be  employed  as  a 
teacher  under  this  law  unless  such  person  shall  hold  ^^  ,^  . 
a  certificate  of  qualification  issued  by  the  Examiner  of  teachers, 
of  the  county  in  which  he  or  she  proposes  to  teach, 
or  from  the  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School,  a 
diploma  as  graduate  of  said  Normal  School,  or  cer- 
tificate from  the  State  Board  of  Education,  as  here- 
inbefore provided. 

Sec.  2.  Teachers  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Board 
of  District  School  Trustees,  and  may  be  removed  ^  I^J^^o^al  of 
at  any  time  said  board  may  think  proper,  after 
thirty  days'  notice  given  to  the  teacher  in  writing. 


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,  Sec.  3.  Teachers  shall  enter  into  tlieir  quarterly 
quarferlY^^re-^^P^^^''^  ^^  accurate  account  of  the  attendance  of 
ports.  pupils,  of  text-books  used  and  branches  taught,  and 

such  other  statistics  as  may  be  required^  and  .make 
due  returns  thereof  to  the  Board  of  County  School 
Commissioners  at  the  end  of  each  term  ;  and  no 
teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  payment  for  ser- 
vices until  the  quarterly  report,  properly  filled  up 
and  completed,  be  so  returned  ;  the  quarterly  re- 
ports shall  be  filed  by  the  Board  of  County  School 
Commissioners,  for  the  purpose  of  making  the  an- 
nual returns  to  the  State  Board  of  Education. 

Sec.  4.  The  Board  of  County  School  Comrais- 
May  examine  sioners  shall  examine  any  charge  preferred  against 
cliarges  pre- the  moral  character  of  any  teacher  within  their 
county  ;  they  shall  give  the  teacher  reasonable 
notice  of  the  charge  in  writing,  and  an  opportunity 
to  defend  himself,  and  if  the  charge  be  sustained 
they  shall  annul  the  teacher's  certificate,  and  shall 
give -notice  thereof  to  the  State  Board  of  Education  ; 
'provided,  that  an  appeal  shall  lie  to  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  whose  decision  shall  be  final. 


ferred. 


Proviso. 


Sec.  5.  Any  person  holding  a  first  grade  teacher's 
Certifioates  certificate,  or  the  diploma  of  a  respectable  college, 
or  of  a  State  Normal  School,  who  has  been  a  teacher 
for  seven  years^  of  which  five  shall  have  been  spent 
in  the  State  of  Maryland,  may  apply  to  the  State 
Board  of  Education  for  a  life  certificate,  which  if 
granted  shall  exempt  him  from  any  further  exam- 
inations ;  said  certificate  may  be  annulled  by  said 
Board  at  any  time  on  account  of  immoral  or  unpro- 
fessional conduct. 

Sec.  5.  The  salaries  of  teachers  of  each   county 
^Salaries.         ahall  be  fixed  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners. 


Chapter  IX. — Pupils. 

Section  1.  All  white  youth  between  the  ages  of 

Adult  pupils,  gi;^  and  twenty-one  years  shall  be  admitted  into 

the  public  schools  of  the  State,  the  studies  of  which 

they  may  be  able  to  pursue  ;  provided ,  that  when- 


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ever  there  are  graded  schools,  the  teachers  and 
Board  of  District  School  Trustees  shall  determine 
to  which  school  pupils  shall  be  admitted. 

Sec.    2.  The  Board  of  District   School  Trustees    gugpendpu- 
shall  have  power  to  suspend  and  expel  pupils  forpiis. 
cause  ;  provided,  that  an  appeal  shall  lie  to  the 
Board  of  County  School   CommissionerSj  whose  de- 
cision shall  be  final. 

Sec.  8.  Children  living  remote  from  the  school 
of  the   district  in   which  they  reside,   may  attend     Living  re- 
school  in  an  adjoining  district,  with  the  consent  of ^^te  from, 
the  Boards  of  the  respective  school  districts. 

Sec.   4.  Every  child,  before  being   admitted  to 
any  public  school,  shall  produce  a  certificate  from 
a  regular  physician  that  he  has  been  properly  vacci- Vaccinated, 
nated. 

Chapter  X. — Text  Books, 

Section  1.  School  books  shall  contain  nothing  oi-^^^  partisan. 
a  sectarian  or  partisan  character. 

/"     Sec.    2.  Each  Board  of  County  School   Commis- 
/    sioners  shall  adopt,  and  may  purchase  the  text-books    Adopt  and 
(     for  the  public  schools  in  their  respective  counties,      purchase. 

Sec.  3.  The  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners shall  authorize  the  delivery  of  books  and,  ^^  ^d^\^^ 
stationery  to  the  various  schools  in  the  county,  under  tionery. 
such  rules  and  regnlations  as  they  may  adopt.  No 
pupil  shall  be  required  to  pay  more  than  one  dollar 
quarterly  for  use  of  said  books  and  stationery  ;  but 
any  pupil,  on  account  of  pecuniary  inability,  may 
be  exempted  from  payment  by  the  Board  of  District 
School  Trustees  ;  provided,  nevertheless,  that  par- 
ents or  pupils  may  purchase  their  own  books  when 
they  may  think  proper. 

Sec.   4.  The   Board  of  County  School    Commis- 
sioners shall  keep  an  account  of  the  books  and  sta- ^^^^  ^^^^^^* 
tionery  delivered  to  the  several  schools  in  their  re- 
spective districts,  and  file  their  receipts  for  the  same. 

9. 


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Chapter  XI. — County  Examiner. 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 
Examine  can-  Examiner  to  examine  candidates  for  the  profession 
didates.  Qf  teacher_,  in  the  presence  of  at  least  one  member 

of  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners,  or 
one  or  more  of  the  District  Trustees,  and  to  give 
such  persons  as  are  found  qualified,  under  the  sanc- 
tion of  the  Board  at  its  next  meeting,  a  certificate 
*  setting  forth  the  branches  such  persons  are  compe- 

tent to  teach  ;  but  no  certificate  shall  be  granted 
without  satisfactory  evidence  of  the  moral  character 
of  the  applicant. 


Registered. 


Grades. 


Duration. 


Sec.  2.  The  certificate  issued  by  each  County  Ex- 
aminer shall  be  numbered  and  registered  in  a  book 
kept  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners, 
and  to  be  delivered  to  their  successors  in  office,  and 
shall  be  denominated  first  or  second  grade,  as  the 
case  may  be  ;  and  the  State  Board  of  Education 
shall  keep  a  book  in  the  same  manner  as  i  he  County 
Examiner.  Certificates  of  the  first  grade  shall  em- 
brace orthography,  reading,  writing,  arithmetic, 
geography,  history,  English  grammar,  book-keep- 
ing, algebra  and  natural  philosophy';  and  those  of 
the  second  grade  shall  embrace  orthography,  read- 
ing, writing,  arithmetic,  geography,  history  and 
English  grammar ;  but  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion may  add  additional  requirements  to  those  in- 
dicated for  either  grade,  whenever  the  same  may 
seem  necessary.  Such  a  certificate  shall,  however, 
not  continue  in  force  for  more  than  six  months,  un- 
less the  person  receiving  the  same  shall  satisfy  the 
Examiner  of  his  fitness  for  governing  a  school,,  and 
his  ability  to  impart  instruction  in  the  various 
branches  taught  in  the  public  schools  ;  but  when 
the  Examiner  shall  have  satisfied  himself  upon  these 
points,  he  shall  be  empowered  to  issue  a  certificate, 
which  shall  continue  in  force  for  three  years  from 
the  date  of  issue. 


C  rt'fi   t        ^^^*  ^*  "^^  certificate  of  qualification  as  a  teacher 
not  granted,   shall  be  issued  to  any  male  under  nineteen  years  of 
age,  or  to  a  female  under  seventeen  years  of  age. 


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Sec.  4.  The  County  Examiner  shall  hold  regular 
examinations  of  teachers  at  such  times  as  the  ^^^"^"^^^'^®- 
Board  may  direct,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be 
given  in  the  newspapers,  or  otherwise,  No  Ex- 
aminer shall  he  allowed  to  charge  any  fees  for  the 
issuing  of  certificates  to  teachers  ;  and  if  any  Ex- 
aminer shall  be  found  guilty  of  charging  or  receiv- 
ing any  fee  or  reward,  directly  or  indirectly^  for 
issuing  any  certificate  to  a  teaclier,  he  shall  be  dis- 
missed from  office. 

Sec.  5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Ex- 
aminer, or  his  assistant,  at  least  three  times  in  each  Duty_or 
school  year,  to  visit  the  schools  in  his  county  if  it  aiSin^, 
contains  fifty  schools  or  less,  and  twice  a  year  in 
counties  having  more  than  fifty  schools  ;  he  shall 
observe  the  method  of  the  teacher  and  give  him 
such  practical  suggestions  as  the  circumstances  may 
prompt ;  he  shall,  whenever  possible,  attend  public 
examinations,  and  report  quarterly  in  detail  the 
result  of  his  observations  to  the  Board  of  County 
School  Commissioners. 

Sec,  6.  The  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Board 

of  County  School  Commissioners  shall  give  bond  to   ,  Officers  to 

the  State  of  Maryland,  with  at  least  two  securities  ^^^^   °^*'' 

to  be  approved  by  the  said  Board,  in  such  penal 

sum  as  the  said  Board  sh^all  determine,  with  the 

condition  that  he  will  faithfully  perform  the  duties 

of  Secretary  and  Treasurer^  pay  over  and  apply  all 

moneys  that  shall  come  to  his   hands  or  care  as^    .      ,„ 
m  j^  1  1   •  1  Duties  of  Sec- 

Treasurer,  to  such  persons  and  m  such  manner  as  retaiy. 

said  Board  may,  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act, 
direct ;  and  that  he  will  keep  a  full  account  of  all 
moneys  received  and  paid  by  him,  and  all  matters 
relating  to  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  preserve  the 
same  and  all  vouchers  relating  thereto,  and  deliver 
up  all  books  and  vouchers  relating  to  his  office,  to  ^qt^^  to  be 
his  successor;  which  said  bond,  when  executed, filed, 
shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  court 
for  the  county.  He  shall  be  present  at  every  meet- 
ing of  the  Board,  and  may  debate  any  question 
before  them,  but  shall  have  no  vote.  He  shall  keep 
the  minutes  and  conduct  the  correspondence,  and 
shall  duly  file  away  and  safely  keep  all  letters,  re- 


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ports  and  other  papers  pertaining  to  the  business  of 
the  Board.  He  shall  prepare  and  submit  to  the 
Board  for  their  adoption  the  annual  report  to  the 
State  Board  of  Education, 


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Sec.  7.  The  person  or  persons  acting  as   Secre- 
tary, Treasurer  and  Examiner,  under  the  provisions 
their''    whole  ^^  *^^^  ^^^7  shall  devote  their  whole  time  to  public 
time,  school  business,  and  shall  receive  such  compensa- 

tion as  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 
may  direct. 

* 

Notifv  the     ^^^'  ^*  '^^^  Examiner  of  each  county  shall,  on  or 
Comptroller,  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  in  every  year 
notify   the    Comptroller    how    many    months    the 
schools  of  his  county  have  been  kept  open^ 


Chapter  XII. — State  Normal  School. 

Section  1.  There  shall  be  located  in  the  City  of 
Location  of  Baltimore  a  State  Normal  School,  for  the  instruc- 
State  Normal  tion  and  practice  of  teachers  in  the  science  of  educa- 
tion, the  art  of  teaching,  and  the  mode  Qf  governing 
schools.  It  shall  be  under  the  control  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education,  who  shall  appoint  a  principal, 
at  a  salary  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  per  an- 
num ;  the  principal  of  the  State  Normal  School 
shall  not  vote  upon  the  subject  of  his  appointment 
or  removal. 

Sessions.  ^EC.  2.  The  sessions  of  the  State  Normal  School, 

until  otherwise  provided  for  by  the  State,  shall  be 
held  in  such  building  as  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion may  select ;  provided,  that  the  rent  be  not 
greater  than  thirty-five  hundred  dollars^  which 
amount,  or  so  much  thereof  as  is  necessary,  is  here- 
by appropriated  annually  for  that  purpose. 

Facultv,  Sec.  3.  The  faculty  of  the  State  Normal  School 

shall  consist  of  the  principal  and  two  male  and  two 
female  professors,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  and  have  such  salaries^, 
and  perform  such  duties  as  said  Board  may  direct. 


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Sec.  4,  The  sessions  of  the  State  Normal  School  h  n  hp 

shall  he  determined  by  the  State  Board  of  Educa- jj-^^^open. 
tion  ;  provided,  that  the  school  shall  be  open  for  not 
less  than  nine  months  in  each  year. 

Sec.  5.  Students  of  both  sexes  shall  be  admitted  students.  • 
to  the  State  Normal  School  ;  females  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  years,  and  males  at  the  ag^e  of  seventeen 
years.  The  students  shall  be  apportioned  by  the 
State  Board  of  Education  among  the  several  coun- 
ties and  the  City  of  Baltimore,  in  proportion  to  their 
respective  representation  in  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  State.  The  students  shall  be  selected  by  the  How  selected. 
Boards  of  County  School  Commissioners,  and  the 
Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Schools  of  the 
City  of  Baltimore,  from  among  persons  having 
scholastic  qualifications  hereinbefore  required  for 
teachers  ;  before  any  appointment  shall  be  made, 
the  applicants  shall  procure  the  certificate  of  the 
County  Examiner  or  City  Superintendent  in  testi-^j,j.[^J2e^"^^ 
mony  of  their  scholastic  proficiency,  and  shall  also 
tile  a  written  declaration  that  their  object  in  obtain- 
ing admission  is  to  qualify  themselves  as  public 
school  teachers,  and  that  it  is  their  intention  to  en- 
gage in  the  profession  of  teaching  within  the  State  ; 
and  in  case  any  student  shall  fail  to  fiilfill  the  con- 
ditions upon  which  they  were  admitted,  they  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  thirty  dollars  for  each  session  they 
have  attended  the  Normal  School,  to  be  collected  as 
other  debts  are  coUeeted,  and  to  be  applied  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Normal  School.,  If  there  be  not 
applicants  sufficient  from  any  county  or  city,  then 
the  State  Board  of  Education  may  fill  all  vacancies 
by  selecting  a[)plicants  from  any  other  portion  of 
the  State,  in  the  proportion  aforesaid. 

Sec.  6-  In  addition  to  the  students  admitted  from      kayi-      \ 
the  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  who  shall  g^uclents. 
enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the  school  and  be  fur- 
nished with  the  use  of  the  text-books  free  of  charge, 
there  may  be  admitted  in  the  proportion  of  one  to 
two  of  the  scholars  selected  by  the  Board  of  City 
and  County  School  Commissioners,  other  persons^ 
having  the  requisite  qualifications,  who  shall  pay,' 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars  per  session,  and  pur- 


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Proviso. 


Course 
study. 


chase  their  own  text-hooks,  and  he  suhject  in  every 
respect  to  the  same  rules  and  regulations  as  the  "^ 
other  students  ;  provided,  that  the  numher  of  stu- 
dents sent  hy  the  State  shall  not  exceed  two  hundred,, 
and  as  long  as  this  nuniheFis  not  exceeded  by  the 
State,  or  after  it  shall  have  been  reached  by  the 
State,  aJJ^remaining  vacancies  may  be  filled  by  pay 
scholars~to'the  full  capacity  of  the  school. 

Sec.  7.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  pre- 
^  scribe  the  course  of  study,  and  supervise  the  school 
in  every  particular  not  provided  for  in  this  law  ; 
they  shall  make  provision  for  model  and  experi- 
mental primary  and  grammar  schools,  under  quali- 
fied teachers,  in  which  the  students  of  the  Normal 
School  shall  have  an  opportunity  to  practice  the 
modes  of  instruction  and  discipline  inculcated  in 
the  Normal  School.  The  salaries  of  the  teachers 
of  the  model  and  experimental  schools  shall  be  paid, 
in  part  from  the  tuition  fees  derived  from  the  pupils 
of  said  model  schools. 


Sec.  8.  The  annual  sum  often  thousand  fiYe  hun- 
Support  of.  dred  dollars  is  hereby  appropriated  for  the  support 
of  the  Normal  School,  to  be  paid  in  quarterly  in- 
stallments by  the  Treasurer^  on  the  warrant  of  the 
Comptroller,  to  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and 
to  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  teachers'  salaries, 
and  the  purchase  of  educational  apparatus  ;  for 
the  salary  of  the  Principal  of  the  Normal  School, 
his  traveling  expenses  in  attending  meetings  of 
Teachers'  Institutes,  and  superintending  the  schools 
throughout  the  State  ;  and  for  such  assistance  as 
may  be  required  in  the  Normal  School  during  his 
absence  on  duty  ;  and  for  text-books,  stationery, 
fuel,  light,  and  other  incidental  expenses  of  the 
school. 


DonationB.  Sec.  9.  All  donations  or  bequests  of  money  or 

personal  property,  and  all  grants  or  devises  of  lands 
for  the  benefit  of  the  State  Normal  School,  shall  be 
held  in  trust  by  the  State  Board  of  Education.- 

Report  to  the     ^EC.  10.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall,  on 
Governor.      or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  in  each  and 


OS  MARYLAND.  23 

every  year,  make  a  report  to  the  Governor  of  the 
condition  of  the  schools  of  the  State ;  a  statement 
of  the  apportionment  of  money  to  the  counties  and 
the  City  of  Baltimore  for  the  support  of  schools  ; 
an  abstract  of  the  reports  received  from  the  Boards 
of  County  School  Commissioners,  together  with 
such  suggestions  for  the  improvement  of  schools, 
and  the  advancement  of  public  education  as  the 
State  Board  of  Education  shall  deem  expedient. 

Sec.   11.    And  the  Governor   shall   cause   three 
thousand  copies  of  said  report  to  be  printed  andj^ave  printed, 
distributed  to  the  members  of  the  Legislature  in 
those  years  in  which  there  is  no  session  of  the  Leg- 
islature. 


Chapter  XIII. — Teachers'  Institutes. 

Section  1.  A  Teachers'  Institute,  to  continue  five  Teachers'  In- 
days,  shall  be  held  in  each  county  once  a  year,  andstitute. 
the  County  Examiner  shall  be  present,  and  shall 
give  normal  instruction  to  the  teachers  each  day. 

Sec.  2.  The  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School    Fix  time  of 
shall  fix  the  time  of  the  meeting  of  the  Institute,  ^^olding. 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Examiner 
to  notify  each  teacher  of  the  time  and   place  of 
meeting. 

Sec.  3.  These  Institutes  being  designed  as  1>em- 
porary  Normal  Schools,  shall  be  presided  over  by  Design  of. 
the  Principal  or  one  of  the  Professors  of  the  State 
Normal  School,  if  he  can  be  present,  assisted  by 
the  County  Examiner,  and  any  member  of  the 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  who  may 
choose  to  attend.  • 


Sec.  4.  The  President  of  the  Board  of  County  g^^^  ^ 
School  Commissioners  shall  select  the  place  of  place.  ^^ 
meeting. 


24  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LA  W 

Chapter  XIV. — Teachers'  Associations, 

Teachei-s' As-      SECTION  1.  District,  County  and  State  Teachers' 
sociatioDs.      Associations  are  recommended  as  important  means 
of  elevating  the  standard  of  public  education  by 
mutual  conference,  interchange  of  views,  and  sug- 
gestions as  to  systems  of  teaching  and  discipline. 

Sec.  2.  It  shall  be  the  care  of  the  County  Exam- 
Organization.  iner  to  aid  in  the  organization  of  these  associations, 
to  encourage  attendance,  to  secure  competent  lec- 
turers, and  to  impart  such  information  as  will 
encourage  teachers  in  their  work,  and  fit  them  for 
the  performance  of  their  duties. 

May  occupy     Sec.  3.  These  associations  may  occupy  any  of  the 

school  buUd- school-houses. 
mgB. 

Chapter  XY. — District  Libraries. 

.^  "Section  1.  For  the  further  encouragement  of  edu- 

braries!^^  ^"cation,  district  libraries  ought  to  be  established  in 
each  school-house  district,  under  the  care  of  the 
teacher,  as  librarian.  For  this  purpose,. the  sum  of 
ten  dollars  per  annum  is  ordered  to  be  paid  by  the 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  out  of  the 
State  School  Fund  to  any  school-house  district  as 
library  money,  as  long  as  the  people  of  the  district 
, raise  the  same  amount  annually.  The  books  must 
ibe  selected  by  the  Board  of  District  School  Trustees. 


Chapter  XVli — The  City  of  Baltimore. 

The  City(<3f  'SECTION  1.  The  Mayor  and  City  Council  of  the 
jBaltunore.  City  of  Baltimore  shall  have  full  power  and  author- 
ity to  establish  in  said  city  a  system  of  free  public 
schools,  under  such  ordinances,  rules  and  regula- 
tions as  they  may  deem  fit  and  proper  to  enact  and 
^  prescribe ;  they  may  delegate  supervisory  powers 
and  control  to  a  Board  of  School  Commissioners  ; 
may  prescrib'e  rules  for  building  school-houses,  and 
locating,  establishing  and  closing  schools,  and  may 
jn  general  do  every  act  that  may  be  necessary  or 
proper  in  the  premises. 


OF  MARYLAND.  25 

Sec.   2.  The  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public 
Schools  of  Baltimore  City,  or  by  whatever  name  the  exanSne,^  ap^ 
body   may  be  known  that  has  supervisory  powers  point  and  re- 
and  control  over  the  Public  Schools  of  Baltimore  move. 
City,  shall   have  power  to  examine,  appoint  and 
remove  teachers,  prescribe  the  qualifications,  fix  the 
salaries,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Mayor  and 
City  Council,  and  select  text-books  for  the  schools 
of  said  city  ;  provided,  such  text-books  shall  contain  Proviso, 
nothing  of  a  sectarian  or  partisan  character.     The 
Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Schools  of  said 
city  shall   annually  make  a   report  to    the   State 
Board  of  Education  of  the  condition  of  the  schools 
under  their  charge,  to  include  a  statement  of  ex- 
penditures, the  number  of  children  taught,  and  such 
other  statistical  information  as  may  be  necessary  to 
exhibit  the  operation  of  the  schools. 

Sec.  3.  The  Mayor  and  City  Council  of  Baltimore  Pro^ctwn^f 
shall  have  power  and  authority  to  make  all  ordi-®^  ^'  ^^^® 
nances  for  the  protection  of  the  scliool-houses  and 
property,  and  to  punish  any  person  who  may  dis- 
turb the  sessions  of  said  public  schools. 

Sec.  4.  And  the  said  Mayor  and  City  Council  are 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  levy  and  col- ^^^^.^^^^-^^ 
lect  upon  the  assessable  property  in  said  city,  as 
other  taxes  are  levied  and  collected,  such  amount  of 
taxes  as  may  be  necessary  to  defray  all  the  expenses 
incurred  for  educational  purposes  by  said  Mayor 
and  City  Council. 


Chapter  XYII. — High  Schools, 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
County  School  Commissioners,  when  any  election    -jyj     accept 
district  or  any   contiguous   election  districts  shall  building    for 
present  a  building  for  a  higb  school  in  said  district  liigh  school, 
or  districts,  to  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners, to  accept  the  same  (if,  in  the  judgment 
of  the  Board,  there  is  any  necessity  therefor),  and 
thereafter  provide  for  maintenance  of  a  high  school 
in  said  district  or    districts^   and   the   salaries   of 
teachers  out  of  the  general  school  fund. 


26  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LA  W 

Sec.  2.  If  the  high  school  he  established  by  a 
g^^QQj^  (^qIj.  district  or  districts,  the  Board  of  County  School 
missioners.  Commissioners  shall  appoint  three  persons,  who 
shall  constitute  a  Board  of  High  School  Commis- 
sioners, and  exercise  like  authority  over  said  school 
as  hereinbefore  provided  for  Boards  of  District 
School  Trustees  ;  but  high  schools  established  by 
the  county  shall  be  under  the  direct  control  of  the 
Board  of  County  School  Commissioners. 

Visited  and  ^^^-  ^-  Each  high  school  shall  be  visited  and  exam- 
examined,  ined  annually  by  the  Principal  of  the  State  Normal 
School,  or  a  professor  thereof;  such  high  school 
shall  also  be  visited  at  least  once  in  each  school 
term  by  the  County  Examiner,  who  shall  report 
quarterly  to  the  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners the  result  of  hts  observations. 

Sec.  4.  If  practicable,  military  tactics  may  form 
tics!^^^^^  ^^"a  department  in  every  high  school. 


Chapter  XVIII. — Schools  for  Colored  Children, 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of 
/Colored  chil-  County  School  Commissioners  to  establish  one  or 
dren.  more  public  schools  in  each  election  district  for  all 

colored  youth  between  six  and  twenty  years  of  age, 
to  which  admission  shall  be  free,  and  which  shall 
be  kept  open  as  long  as  the  other  public  schools  of 
the  particular  county  ;  provided,  the  average  attend- 
ance be  not  less  than  fifteen  scholars. 


Trustees. 


Sec.  2.  Each  colored  school  shall  be  under  the 
direction  of  a  Special  Board  of  School  Trustees,  to 
be  appointed  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Com- 
missioners, and  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  laws 
for  its  government,  and  furnish  instruction  in  the 
same  branches  as  the  schools  for  white  children. 

Sec.  3.  The  Comptroller  shall  apportion  the  sum 

^  Appropria-  appropriated  for  the  support  of  the  colored  schools 

*^^^-  of  the  several  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore, 

in  proportion  to  their  respective  colored  ))opulation 

between   the  ages  of  five  and  twenty  years,   said 


OF  MARYLAND.  2*7 

apportionment  to  be  made  at  the  time  he  apportions 
the  levy  for  the  white  schools. 

Sec.  4.  The  total  amount  of  taxes  paid  for  school 
purposes  by  the  colored  people  of  any  county,  or  in  rp^^es 
the  city  of  Baltimore,  together  with  any  donations 
that  may  he  made  for  the  purpose,  shall  also  be 
devoted  to  the  maintenance  of  the  schools  for  colored 
children. 


Chapter  XIX. — Sources  of  Income. 

Section  1.  A  State  tax  of  ten  cents  on  each  one 
hundred  dollars  of  taxable  property  throughout  the  Income. 
State  shall  be  levied  annually  for  the  support  of  free 
public  schools  and  the  Maryland  State  Normal 
School,  which  tax  shall  be  collected  at  the  same 
time  and  by  the  same  agents  as  the  general  State 
levy,  and  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the 
State,  to  be  distributed  by  the  Treasurer  to  the 
Boards  of  School  Commissioners  of  the  city  of  Bal- 
timore and  the  several  counties. 

Sec.  2.  The  Treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of  the  Treasurer  to 
Comptroller,  shall  pay  as  heretofore  to  each  of  the  disburse, 
counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore  the  proportion  of 
the  free  school  fund  to  which  such  city  or  county  is 
entitled  under  the  provisions  of  the  laws  and  reso- 
lutions existing  at  the  time  this  Act  is  adopted  ; 
and  he  shall  pay  the  same  to  the  Treasurer  of  the 
Board  of  School  Commissioners  of  Baltimore  city 
and  the  several  counties  ;  and  the  several  colleges 
and  academies  shall  respectively  receive  the  dona- 
tions granted  to  them  by  any  laws  or  resolutions  of 
the  General  Assembly,  subject  to  the  conditions 
annexed  thereto. 

Sec.  3.  Real  and  personal  estate  granted,  con- 
veyed, devised  or  bequeathed  for  the  use  of  any  par- 
ticular county  or  school  district,  shall  be  held  in  Held  in  trust, 
trust  by  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 
for  the  benefit  of  such  county  or  school  district,  and 
such  grants  and  bequests  shall  be  exempt  from  all 
State  and  county  taxes. 


28  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LA  W 

Sec.  4.  Moneys  invested  prior  to  the  passage  of 
^J^^P^/^^^  this  Act,  in    trust  for   the   benefit  of   the  public 
schools  of  any  county  or  city,  shall  be  exempt  from 
State,  county  or  local  tax. 

Comptroller  Sec.  5.  As  soon  as  the  Comptroller  shall  have 
apportion,  received  from  the  city  of  Baltimore  and  the  several 
counties  returns  of  the  amount  of  the  State  School 
Tax  levied  in  each  county  and  the  city  of  Balti- 
more, he  shall  immediately  thereafter  apportion  the 
amount  of  the  whole  levy  to  the  several  counties 
and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  in  proportion  to  their 
respective  population  between  the  ages  of  five  and 
twenty  years. 

Time  of.  Sec.  6.  On  the  fifteenth  day  of  June,  the  first  day 

of  October,  the  first  day  of  January,  and  the  fif- 
teenth day  of  March,  in  each  year,  the  Comptroller 
shall  apportion  the  amount  of  school  tax  received 
by  the  Treasurer  among  the  several  counties  and 
the  city  of  Baltimore,  in  proportion  to  the  whole 
amount  apportioned  to  each  by  the  Comptroller,  and 
he  shall  notify  the  State  Board  of  Education  and 

Notify  parties  the  Treasurer  of  the  several  Boards  of  the  County 

who  are  to  School  Commissioners  of  the  counties  and  city  of 
Baltimore,  of  the  amount  of  tax  due  to  each  county 
and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  on  the  several  days  afore- 
said, and  the  Treasurer  shall  pay  the  several  amounts 
within  ten  days  after  said  notification,  upon  the 
draft  of  the  President  and  Secretary  of  the  several 
Boards  of  County  School  Commissioners  aforesaid  ; 

Proviso.  provided  also,  that  if  in  any  county  the  schools 
shall  be  kept  open  less  than  seven  and  a  half  months 
of  the  year  ending  December  thirty-first,  the  Comp- 
troller shall  withhold  from  such  county  the  April 
installment  of  the  State  School  Tax. 


J  ,  .  Sec.  Y.  When  the  levy  of  any  year  shall  have 
and  abate- been  collected,  the  Comptroller  shall  apportion 
inents.  among  the  several  counties  and  the  city  of  Balti- 

more the  amount  allowed  on  the  levy  for  insolven- 
cies and  abatements,  and  shall  transmit  a  statement 
of  the  same  to  the  State  Board  of  Education. 


OF  MARYLAND,  29 

Bliscellaneoiis . 

Section  1.  The  present  Boards  of  County  School 
Commissioners,    and    the   Secretaries,    Treasurers, 
Examiners  and  District  School  Trustees,  aj)pointed  Serve  out  full 
under  them,  shall  serve  out  the  full  term  for  which  ^^^• 
they  were  severally  appointed,  unless  now  or  here-  ^ 

after  disqualified  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act. 
The  Judges  of  the  Circuit  Court  in  the  respective  "^P  ^^^  vacan- 
counties  are  empowered  to  fill   any  vacancies  which 
may  exist  or  which  may  occur  in  the  present  Boards 
of  County  School  Commissioners. 

Sec.  2.  Schools  on  or  near  the  dividing  line  of 
two  counties  shall  be  free  to  the  children  of  each    ^ 
county;  and  the  Board  of  County  School  Commis- county, 
sioners  of  the  respective  counties  shall  have  power 
to    provide   jointly   for   the    maintenance   of   said 
schools. 

Sec.  3.  And  he  it  enacted,  That  all  the  sections 
of  the  several  articles  of  the  Code  of  Public  General  Repealed. 
Laws  relating  to  schools,  inconsistent  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act,  and  all  Acts  of  Assembly  passed 
since  the  adoption  of  said  volumes  of  the  Code  re- 
lating to  schoolSj  inconsistent  with  the  provisions 
of  this  Act,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  4.  And  he  it  enacted,     That  this  act  shall 
take  eifect  from  the  date  of  its  passage.  ^^  ^*°^^- 


NOTE.—ThQ  following  are  the  Sections  of  the  Act  of  1872 
amended  by  the  Act  of  1874 : 

Ohap.  11,  Sees.  1  and  3 ;  Chap.  Ill,  Sec.  4; 

Chap.  V,  Sees.  1  and  5 ;  Chap.  VI,  Sec.  2  ; 

Chap.  VIII,  Sec.  3  ;  Chap.  X,  Sec.  2 ; 

Chap.  XI,  Sec.  2 ;  Chap.  XII,  Sees.  2  and  8 ; 

Chap.  XIII,  Sec.  1 ;  Chap.  XVIII,  Sec,  2, 


^^^  Of  TBX^^ 

UFI7BESIT7] 


BY-LAWS, 


Rules  and  Regulations 


FOB  THE   GTJIDAl^CE   OP 


Teachers  and  School  Officers 


OF  THE 


PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 


OF 


MARYLAND 


BY  JjUTFfORITY  OF  THE  STiJTE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 


BAL^IMOKEi 
WM.  J.  C.  DULANY  &  CO. 

PRINI^ERS  AND  STATIONERS  TO  StATE  BoARD  OF  EDUCAl'lOJf* 

1877. 


BY-LAWS,  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS, 


[Laws  of  1874,  Chap.  463,  III,  4.—'' The  State  Board  of 
Education  shall  *  *  *  *  enact  by-laws  for  the 
administration  of  the  Public  School  System ,  not  at  variance 
with  this  Act." ^ 

ARTICLE  I. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 

1.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  hold  regular 
meetings  on  the  last  Wednesday  in  May,  August^  Novem- 
ber and  February  in  every  year  ;  and  special  meetings  at 
the  call  of  the  President,  the  Secretary,  or  any  three  mem- 
bers of  the  Board. 

2.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  to  cause 
the  provisions  of  the  School-Law  to  be  carried  into  effect ;  to 
suspend  or  remove  any  County  Examiner  or  Teacher  who  is 
physically,  intellectually  or  morally  incom[)etent  for  the  dis- 
chargeof  his  duties  ;  to  explain  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of 
the  School-Law  ;  to  decide  all  controversies  and  disputes  under 
the  School-Law^  which  may  be  submitted  to  them  ;  to  exer- 
cise a  general  care  and  supervision  over  the  Public  School 
interests  of  the  State  ;  to  act  as  assistants  and  advisers  of 
the  several  County  School  ^Boards  ;  to  issue  circular  letters 
to  Teachers  and  School  Commissioners  on  Public  School 
business  ;  to  issue  a  uniform  series  of  blanks  for  the  use  of 
Teachers  and  County  School  Boards  ;  to  make  report  to  the 
Governor  annually,  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  Janu- 
ary^ of  the  condition  of  the  schools  of  the  State ;  to  super- 

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vise  the  State  Normal  School  and  act  as  Trustees  thereof ; 
to  examine  candidates  for  the  office  of  County  Examiner, 
when  requested  by  the  County  School  Board  ;  and  to  grant 
professional  or  life  certificates  to  teachers  of  long  experience 
and  established  reputation,  under  such  conditions  and  regu- 
lations as  they  may  adopt. 

3.  The  Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School  is  the  Ex- 
ecutive officer  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  is,  ex 
officio  J  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  He  shall 
conduct  the  correspondence  and  prepare  the  Annual  School 
Keport ;  and,  when  the  State  Board  is  not  in  session,  shall 
issue  circulars,  give  advice,  and  render  decisions,  subject 
to  confirmation  by  the  Board  at  its  next  meeting. 

ARTICLE  II. 

THE  BOARDS  OF  SCHOOL  COMMISSIONERS. 

1.  There  shall .  be  a  stated  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
County  School  Commissioners  of  each  county  within  fifteen 
days  after  the  close  of  each  School  Term,  and  sp&cial  meet- 
ings as  occasion  may  require.  The  days  of  quarterly  stated 
meetings  shall  be  determined  by  the  County  Board  and 
made  known  to  the  public. 

2.  The  Rules  generally  adopted  by  deliberative  bodies  for 
their  government  shall  be  observed,  so  far  as  applicable,  by 
the  Boards  of  County  School  Commissioners. 

3.  No  resolution  or  motion  (except  a  motion  to  adjourn) 
shall  be  declared  adopted  without  the  concurrence  of  a  ma- 
jority of  the  whole  Board  ;  namely,  two  members  when  the 
Board  consists  of  three,  and  three  members  when  the  Board 
consists  of  five. 

4.  The  Board  shall  have  power  to  determine  all  questions 
of  dispute  arising  in  the  administration  of  the  School-Laws, 
except  in  cases  where  the  power  has  been  otherwise  specially 
delegated.  An  accurate  record  must  be  made  of  each  case 
decided,  that,  if  an  appeal  be  taken  to  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  all  the  facts  may  be  reported. 


5.  It  IS  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  School  Commis- 
sioners to  hold  in  trust,  as  Trustees,  all  the  property, 
estates,  money  and  claims  belonging  to  the  county  for  the 
use  and  benefit  of  Public,  Primary,  Free  o*'  High  Schools  ; 
to  divide  the  country  into  School  districts,  and  keep  on  record 
the  boundaries  thereof;  to  have  the  general  supervision  of 
all  the  Public  Schools  of  the  county  ;  to  build,  repair,  and 
furnish  School-Houses  ;  to  confirm  or  reject  the  teachers 
appointed  by  the  School  Trustees  ;  to  appoint  all  assistaiit 
teachers  ;  to  fix  the  salaries  of  teachers  ;  to  purchase  and 
distribute  text-books  ;  to  appoint  three  District  Trustees  for 
each  School  District ;  to  make  an  annual  report  to  the  State 
Board  of  Education  on  or  before  the  15th  of  November,  of 
the  condition  of  the  schools  ;  and  to  publish  in  November  of 
every  year  a  statement  of  receipts,  disbursements  and  in- 
debtedness. 

6.  The  salaries  of  the  teachers,  and  all  the  incidental 
expenses  of  the  Schools,  shall  be  paid  by  order  of  the  Board, 
at  the  end  of  each  term.  If  the  public  money  on  hand  is 
not  sufficient,  the  Board  is  authorized  to  borrow  what  may  be 
needed,  and  to  issue  its  note  for  the  amount,  signed  by  the 
President  and  Treasurer.  If  cash  or  its  equivalent  cannot 
be  obtained,  the  teachers'  accounts  must  be  settled  by  a 
certificate  of  indebtedness  within  thirty  days  from  the  close 
of  each  term. 

ARTICLE  III. 

DISTRICT   SCHOOL   TRUSTEES. 

1.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  District  School  Trustees  to  meet 
within  thirty  days  after  their  appointment,  and  at  their 
first  meeting  to  appoint  a  chairman,  and  give  notice  of  the 
appointment  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  County  School 
Commissioners. 

2.  The  Board  of  District  School  Trustees  shall  have  the 
care  of  the  Public  School-Houses  in  the  district  and  lands  con- 
nected therewith,  and  also  of  the  furniture,  apparatus  and 
other  School  property  ;  they  shall  notify  the  County  School 


Board  of  the  repairs  needed  by  the  schoo!-hanse,  and  malsie  an 
estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  same  ;  when  said  estimate  is  ap- 
prored  hy  the  County  School  Board  they  shall  see  that  the 
repairs  are  exetnted  ;  hut  the  cost  of  glazing,  necessary 
white-washing,  and  of  securing  doors  and  windows  may  be 
charged  among  incidental  expenses,  when  the  total  does  not 
exceed  fiye  dollars. 

3.  They  shall  employ  a  Principal  teacher  from  among  the 
persons  holding  a  legal  certificate  ;  they  shall  visit  the 
Schools,  and  exercise  a  general  supervision  over  them  ;  and 
shall  grant  a  permit  for  the  free  use  of  school-books  and 
stationery  to  pupils  whose  parents  are  unable  to  pay  for  the 
same. 

AETICLE  IV. 

IHE  SECRETARY,  TREASURER  AND  EXAMINER. 

1.  The  Secretajry  shall  constitute  a  medium  of  communi- 
cation between  the  State  Board  of  Education  and  the  subor- 
dinate school  officers  and  the  schools.  It  shall  be  his  duty 
to  visit  the  schools  of  the  county,  as  required  by  law,  to 
examine  the  pupils,  to  inquire  into  and  to  regulate  all  mat- 
ters relating  to  the  management,  the  course  of  study,  and 
the  mode  of  instruction  and  discipline,  in  accordance  with 
the  Laws  of  the  State  and  the  By-Laws  of  the  County  and 
State  Boards. 

2.  He  shall,  as  opportunity  offers,  address  the  people  in 
their  school  districts  on  the  importance  of  Public  Instruction, 
and  endeavor  to  enlist  their  interest  in  the  schools  and  their 
teachers,  and  make  such  suggestions  as  he  may  think  im- 
portant for  the  purpose  of  increasing  the  efficiency  of  the 
schools  and  the  comfort  of  the  pupils.  He  shall  examine 
into  the  condition  of  the  school-houses,  out-buildings  and 
appendages,  furniture  and  text-books  ;  he  shall  advise  with 
and  counsel  the  school  officers  of  the  district  in  relation  to 
their  duties  \  suggest  methods  for  warming  and  ventilating 
school-houses,  and  ornamenting  the  school  grounds  ;  recom- 
mend to  teachers  improved  modes  of  instruction,  and  use 


every  effort  to  advance  the  cause  of  public  education,  and  to 
carry  out  the  advice  and  instructions  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education. 

3.  He  shall  organize  and  conduct,  once  in  each  year,  for 
his  own  county,  at  such  time  as,  after  conference  with  the 
Principal  of  the  State  Normal  School,  may  be  designated,  a 
Teachers'  Institute,  at  such  place  as  the  President  of  the 
County  School  Board  may  direct.  la  this  work  the  Secre- 
tary will  be  aided  by  the  Principal  of  the  Normal  School, 
or  by  some  practical  teacher  appointed  for  the  purpose. 
He  shall  also  organize  one  or  more  Teachers'  Associations, 
to  be  convened  at  least  four  times  in  each  ye^r,  requiring 
the  attendance  of  the  teachers  for  the  purpose  of  mutual 
conference  and  instruction  in  their  duties. 

4.  He  shall  hold  an  annual  examination  of  Teachers  in 
the  presence  of  at  least  one  School  Commissioner  or  District 
Trustee,  at  such  time  and  place  (or  times  and  places)  as  the 
County  School  Board  may  order  (of  which  due  notice  shall 
be  given),  and  at  no  other  time  or  place  except  by  the  special 
order  of  the  County  School  Board  ;  but  an  examination  may 
be  adjourned  or  continued  by  the  Examiner. 

5.  The  Examination  shall  be  in  writing  as  far  as  possi- 
ble, and  the  work  shall  be  duly  filed  or  bound,  and  preserved, 
subject  to  inspection  by  the  members  of  the  County  School 
Board  and  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  or  their  order  ; 
and  the  percentage  of  questions  answered  in  each  branch 
shall  be  marked  on  the  examination  paper  aiad  recorded  in 
a  jook  provided  for  the  purpose. 

6.  The  Certificates  issued  by  each  County  Examiner  shall 
be  numbered  and  registered  in  a  book  provided  for  that 
purpose,  and  shall  be  denominated  first  or  second  grade  as 
the  case  may  be.  The  Examiner  may,  under  the  sanction 
of  the  County  School  Board,  classify  the  Certificates  issued 
by  him,  as  first  class  or  second  class  in  each  grade,  taking 
into  account  the  qualifications  of  the  teacher  as  shown  by 
the  examination  and  hi^  experience  and  success  in  teaching. 


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Where  tlie  class  is  not  designated  the  Certificate  shall  be 
presumed  to  be  of  the  first  class. 

7.  Ko  Certificate  shall  continue  in  force  longer  than  six 
months  unless  the  Examiner  is  satisfied  from  personal  ob- 
servation of  the  teacher's  fitness  to  govern  a  school  and 
impart  instruction.  When  the  Examiner  is  satisfied  on 
these  points  he  may  issue  his  Certificate  for  three  years. 
Certificates  of  the  first  class  may  be  renewed,  with  or  with- 
out an  examination  ;  but  no  teacher  shall  be  allowed  to 
teach  under  a  second  class  Certificate  longer  than  three 
years  without  a  re-examination. 

8.  As  Secretary  and  Treasurer  he  shall  take  charge  of 
and  keep  open  the  oflSlce  of  the  Board  during  business  hours, 
on  such  day  or  days  in  every  week  as  the  Board  may  direct ; 
and  public  notice  shall  be  given  of  the  same.  He  shall  be 
present  at  every  meeting  of  the  School  Board,  and  may 
debate  any  question  before  them,  but  shall  have  no  vote. 

9.  He  shall  receipt  for  all  money  received,  and  deposit  it 
to  his  credit  as  Treasurer,  as  directed  by  the  Board — keep- 
ing an  accurate  account  of  the  same,  distinguishing  the 
particular  source  from  which  it  has  been  received,  and  dis- 
burse the  same  according  to  the  order  of  the  Board,  making 
the  same  distinction  in  his  disbursements. 

10.  He  shall  render  to  the  Board,  at  each  stated  meeting, 
an  account  of  receipts  and  disbursements. 

11.  He  shall  keep  a  fair  and  accurate  record  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Board,  and  file  and  preserve  all  reports  in 
writing,  all  accounts,  and  other  written  or  printed  matter 
from  time  to  time  laid  before  the  Board,  subject  at  all  times 
to  the  examination  of  any  member_,  and  shall  make  a  gen- 
eral report  of  the  state  of  such  accounts  annually. 

12.  Where  school-books  ai^e  furnished  hy  the  County 
School  Board  he  shall  keep  an  account  of  books  and  station- 
ery with  each  school,  distinct  from  all  other  accounts,  noting 
the  cost  of  books  and  the  receipts  from  sale  or  use. 

13.  He  shall  prepare  and  submit  to  the  County  Scbool 


Board,  for  their  consideration,  the  Annual  Report  to  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of 
January. 

14.  He  shall  notify  the  Comptroller  on  or  before  the 
fifteenth  day  of  January,  as  to  the  number  of  months  the 
schools  have  been  kept  open  in  his  county  during  the  calen- 
dar year  ending  December  31st  next  preceding. 

J 5.  He  shall  devote  his  whole  time  to  public  school  busi- 
ness. 

16.  He  shall  give  bond,  as  required  by  law,  for  the  due 
performance  of  his  duties  ;  and  this  bond,  when  executed, 
shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk. 

17.  He  is  expected  and  required  to  make  himself  familiar 
with  the  Public  School  Law  of  Maryland,  and  the  By-Laws 
of  the  State  Board  of  Education  made  in  pursuance  of  the 
same ;  and  to  bear  in  mind  that,  by  the  acceptance  or  re- 
tention of  office  under  said  law  and  By-Laws,  he  binds  him- 
self to  the  observance  of  all  the  provisions  which  regulate 
his  office  and  prescribe  his  duties.  In  cases  of  doubt  about 
the  true  meaning  and  intent  of  the  School  Law,  he  will  have 
recourse  to  the  State  Board  as  the  authorized  interpreter  of 
that  law. 

ARTICLE  V. 

TEACHERS. 

1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  Teachers  to  have  the  school- 
rooms swept,  dusted  and  ventilated  every  day,  and  warmed 
when  necessary,  at  least  fifteen  minutes  before  the  hour  of 
opening,  and  to  see  that  the  house  is  kept  clean  and  com- 
fortable at  all  times.  They  shall  organize  and  conduct 
their  schools  according  to  the  schedule  in  Article  VI,  Sec. 
6,  and  shall  give  their  undivided  attention  to  the  pupils 
during  the  whole  of  the  school  hours. 

They  shall  receive  respectfully,  and  give  due  weight  to 
the  admonition,  advice  or  instructions  of  the  Examiner,  and. 
submit  to  his  arbitration  all  difficulties  arising  in  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  school. 


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2.  They  shall  fe^ep  a  record  of  the  daily  attendance  of 
themselves  and  each  pupil,  in  the  Register  provided  for  that 
purpose,  which  shall  he  preserved  in  good  condition,  and 
submitted  to  the  inspection  of  the  Examiner,  the  Trustees, 
and  the  Commissioners  whenever  desired. 

3.  They  shall  make  a  term  report  to  the  School  Board, 
(on  forms  provided  for  that  purpose),  and  shall  fill  up  accu- 
rately all  the  blanks,  so  far  as  applicable  to  each  particular 
school.  They  shall  swear  or  affirm  to  this  report  before  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  or  a  School  Commissioner  ;  they  shall 
have  it  endorsed  by  the  School  Trustees  or  their  Chairman  ; 
and  shall  deliver  it,  thus  sworn  to  and  endorsed,  to  the 
nearest  School  Commissioner  or  to  the  Secretary,  at  least 
three  days  before  the  stated  meeting  of  the  Board. 

4.  No  teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  payment  for 
services  until  the  registers  and  books  are  properly  filled  up, 
and  reports  made  and  delivered,  as  required  by  law. 

5.  No  person  shall  act  as  a  substitute  for  a  teacher  unless 
holding  a  teacher's  certificate,  and  then  only  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  Trustees.  In  case  of  a  disqualified  person  acting 
as  substitute,  no  salary  shall  be  paid  for  that  time. 

6.  For  each  day's  absence  from  school,  without  good  and 
sufficient  reasons,  the  teacher  shall  forfeit  the  proportionate 
amount  of  salary  ;  but  no  deduction  shall  be  made  for  sick- 
ness not  exceeding  three  days  in  one  term.  Time  lost  shall 
not  be  made  up  by  teaching  on  Saturdays  or  legal  holidays. 

7.  If  any  teacher  svacate  his  school  before  the  close  of  the 
term  without  the  consent  of  the  District  Trustees  or  the 
County  School  Board,  he  shall  forfeit  the  salary  already  ac- 
crued for  the  current  teum,  and  be  disqualified  for  any  future 
service  in  the  PublicSchools,  unless  re-instated. 

8.  Any  teacher  in  the  employment  of  this  Board  who 
shall  refuse  to  vacate  the  school  when  regularly  notified  of 
his  suspension  by  the  Trustees  or  the  County  School  Board, 
shall  forfeit  all  claim  for  compensation  for  services  during 
the  term  in  which  Buch  suspension  shall  take  place,  and  be 


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thereafter  ineligible  to  any  school  under  the  control  of  the 
Board,  unless  re-instated. 

9.  Every  teacher  shall  keep  an  account  of  the  books  and 
stationery  furnished  each  pupil  for  use,  and  shall  require 
the  return  of  the  same  when  the  child  leaves  school.  The 
Teacher  will  be  held  responsible  for  the  safe-keeping  and 
good  condition  of  the  books  and  stationery  belonging  to  the 
school. 

10.  Teachers  .shall  not  grant  the  use  of  books  or  station- 
ery to  any  pupil  not  holding  a  free  permit,  unless  the  fee 
for  the  use  of  said  books  and  stationery  has  been  paid  ;  nor 
shall  they  sell  any  books  or  stationery  except  for  cash. 
They  shall,  as  agents  of  the  Board,  collect  and  account  for 
all  money  received  for  books  and  stationery. 

11.  Teachers  shall  purchase,  when  necessary,  such  articles 
as  are  allowed  by  Section  5,  Article  VII,  and  may  pay 
for  them  out  of  money  received  for  books  and  stationery, 
and  present  receipted  bills  for  the  same,  placing  the  amount 
under  the  head  of  incidental  expenses  in  their  term  reports. 

12.  Every  teacher  shall  make  out  and  furnish  to  the 
County  School  Board  an  inventory  of  the  books  and  station- 
ery in  the  school  at  the  expiration  of  each  term  ;  also  an 
inventory  of  the  books  and  stationery  needed  for  the  ensu- 
ing term. 

13.  All  contracts  with  teachers  shall  be  in  writing  and 
signed  by  the  Board  of  District  School  Trustees,  or  a  ma- 
jority of  them,  and  by  the  Teacher.  Said  contracts  shall 
be  submitted  to  the  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 
for  confirmation,  and  shall  not  be  valid  unless  confirmed. 

Form  of  Contract. 
State  of  Maryland: 

County  of 187 

The  undersigned,  Trustees  of  Public  School  No Election 

District  No County  of do  hereby  appoint 

as  Teacher  of  said  School,  subject  to  con- 
firmation by  the  County  School  Board,  and  at  such  salary  as  said 


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Board  may  direct,  to  take  effect  on day  of. 

18 This  appointment  maybe  revoked  at  any  time  by  giving 

thirty  days  notice  in  writing. 

(Two  Trastees,  at  least,  must  sign.) 


vTeustees. 

I  accept  the  above  appointment. 

Teacher, 

Form  of  Dismissal. 
State  of  Maryland:  ^ 

County  of , 187 

To 

Teacher  of  Public  School  No Election  District  No. 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  your  services  as  Teacher  of 

the  aforesaid  School  will  not  be  required  after  the day  of 

18 said  day  being  not  less  than  thirty  days 

from  the  present  date. 

(Two  Trustees,  at  least,  must  sign.) 


\  Trustees. 

14.  If  a  teacher  wishes  to  vacate  the  school  at  the  end 
of  the  term,  ten  days  notice  in  writing  must  be  given  to 
the  Trustees.  If  any  teacher  leaves  without  giving  notice, 
he  shall  be  disqualified  to  serve  again_,  except  by  consent  of 
the  School  Board. 

15.  Immediately  on  the  termination  of  the  scholastic  year, 
or  on  the  teachers'  leaving  the  school,  he  shall  leave  the  key 
of  the  school-house  with,  and  deliver  up  all  school  property 
in  his  charge  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  District  Trus- 
tees or  one  of  the  School  Commissioners,  taking  a  receipt 
therefor. 

16.  No  teacher  is  eligible  to  an  appointment  under  this 
Board  without  having  a  registered  certificate  from  the 
County  Examiner,  or  the  Principal  of  the  State  Normal 
School,  or  a  life  certificate  from  the  State  Board,  or  a  diplo- 


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ma  of  the  State  Normal  School.     The  minimum  legal  age 
of  men  teachers  is  19  years,  of  women  teachers  17  years. 

17.  Teachers  shall  attend  the  Teachers'  Institute  and 
County  and  District  Teachers'  Associations  when  ordered 
by  the  proper  authority  ;  and  failure  to  do  so,  unless  ex- 
plained and  excused,  will  be  considered  as  notice  of  inten- 
tion to  retire  at  an  early  day  from  the  public  school  service. 

18.  Every  teacher  is  expected  and  required  to  make 
himself  acquainted  with  the  By-Laws,  Rules  and  Regula- 
tions of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  of  the  Board  of 
School  Commissioners  of  his  County,  and  to  bear  in  mind 
that  by  accepting  employment  he  voluntarily  undertakes 
to  discharge  the  duties  imposed  or  implied  therein.  Any 
voluntary  neglect  or  violation  of  said  By-Laws  is  therefore 
a  breach  of  contract,  and  may  lead  to  a  termination  of  the 
engagement. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

CERTIFICATES. 

1.  On  and  after  the  1st  of  July,  1875,  certificates  of  the 
first  grade  shall  certify  that  the  teacher  has  been  examined 
in  orthography,  reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  geography, 
history,  English  grammar,  book-keeping,  algebra,  natural 
philosophy,  physiology,  and  geometry  equivalent  to  four 
books  of  Legendre  ;  and  certificates  of  the  second  grade 
shall  embrace  orthography,  reading,  wi'iting,  arithmetic, 
geography,  history,  English  grammar,  physiology^  and 
geometry  equivalent  to  the  first  book  of  Legendre. 

2.  The  first  certificate  granted  to  any  teacher  shall  con- 
tinue in  force  for  six  months  (or  less)  and  no  longer  ;  but  it 
may  be  extended  for  three  years  from  the  original  date, 
provided  the  Examiner  shall  endorse  upon  it  as  follows : 

^^  The  within  named  having  taught  for  six  months 

in  this  county,  and  having  satisfii^  me  of  his  fitness  for 
governing  a  school  and  his  ability  to  impart  instruction, 
this  certificate  is  valid  for  three  years  from  the  original 
date." 


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3.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  without  satisfactory 
evidence  of  the  moral  character  of  the  applicant. 

4.  A  certificate  valid  for  life  or  during  good  behavior 
shall  be  granted  to  teachers  who  shalU  have  fulfilled  the 
following  conditions :  1.  The  applicant  must  hold  a  first 
grade  certificate,  or  the  diploma  of  a  college  or  of  a  State 
Normal  School.  2.  He  must  have  been  a  teacher  for  seven 
years,  of  which  ^ve  have  been  spent  in  Maryland.  3.  He 
must  pass  a  satisfactory  examination  before  the  State  Board 
of  Education. 

ARTICLE  VII, 

SCHOOLS, 

1 .  The  system  of  instruction  shall  embrace  the  following 
branches,  viz :  Orthography,  Reading,  Writing,  Arithme- 
tic, Geography,  History,  English  Grammar,  Book-keeping, 
Algebra,  Geometry,  Physiology,  Natural  History,  Natural 
Philosophy,  Drawing, Vocal  Music,  and  such  other  branches 
as  the  State  Board  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe.  Each 
pupil  must  pursue  the  prescribed  course  of  study,  and  in 
such  classes  as  the  Teacher  may  direct. 

2.  The  school  year  of  ten  months  shall  be  divided  into 
four  terms  as  nearly  equal  as  possible,  to  be  called  the  Fall, 
Winter,  Spring,  and  Summer  terms,  respectively,  and 
when  th6  schools  are  kept  open  less  than  ten  months  no 
term  shall  contain  more  than  ten  and  a  half  weeks,  or  fifty- 
three  school  days. 

3.  School  shall  be  open  daily,  five  daj^s  in  each  week, 
and  for  six  hours  each  day.  The  hours  each  day,  finless 
otherwise  ordered  by  the  School  Commissioners,  shall  be 
from  9  A.  M.  to  12,  and  from  1  P.  M.  to  4.  No  school 
shall  be  in  session  on  Saturday,  Sunday,  or  on  any  legal 
holiday.  The  legal  holidays  are  as  follows  :  Thanksgiving 
day  ;  the  24th  of  Decqnber  to  the  first  of  January,  (both 
inclusive);  the  22d  of  February,  (Washington's  Birth-day,) 
the  Friday  before  Easter  and  the  Monday  after  Easter  ;  the 
Monday  of  Whitsuntide  ;   the  4th  day  of  July  ;   the  whole 


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month  of  August ;  any  other  calendar  month  appointed  by 
the  County  School  Board  as  vacation  ;  and  the  days  desig- 
nated for  the  holding  of  the  annual  Teachers'  Institute. 
These  vacations  and  holidays  are  obligatory  on  all  schools ; 
but  each  County  School  Board  may  order  such  other  holidays 
or  vacations  as  in  their  discretion  may  seem  proper. 

4.  There  shall  be  a  public  examination  of  the  pupils  in 
each  school  twice  a  year,  to  which  parents  and  school  officers 
shall  be  invited  ;  and  these  examinations  shall  be  reported 
to  the  School  Board  in  the  quarterly  report. 

5.  The  teacher  of  any  school,  with  the  consent  of  the 
Trustees  thereof,  may  order  the  following  articles  for  the 
comfort,  convenience  and  security  of  the  school,  when  not 
otherwise  provided  for  by  the  County  School  Board,  viz : 
fuel,  (ax  and  saw  if  needed),  water-bucket,  drinking-cup, 
wash-basin,  soap,  window  fastenings,  door-lock,  all  of  which 
shall  be  paid  for  by  the  teacher,  and  charged  among  the 
incidental  expenses  of  the  school,  provided  that  Touchers  shall 
be  given  for  every  expenditure.  The  teacher  shall  be  re- 
sponsible for  the  due  care  and  right  use  of  such  articles,  and 
any  loss  arising  from  neglect  or  waste  shall  be  charged 
against  his  salary. 

6.  The  following  classification  and  schedule  of  studies 
shall  be  observed  in  all  Primary  Schools  and  in  those  classes 
of  graded  and  High  Sohools  to  which  they  are  applicable  : 

7.  The  rules  adopted  by  any  Principal  teacher  for  the 
government  of  his  school,  with  the  consent  of  the  Board  of 
District  Trustees,  and  not  at  variance  with  the  School  Law, 
the  By-Laws  of  the  State  Board,  or  the  By-Laws  of  the 
County  School  Board,  shall  be  carefully  observed  by  all 
pupils  and  assistant  teachers  under  his  authority. 

First  Grade. 

1.  The  Alphabet;  spelling  and  reading  Primer,  or  one- 
half  of  First  Reader.  2,  Printing  capitals  and  small  letters. 
3.  Counting  objects  as  far  as  20.     4.  Writing  figures  as  far 


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as  20.     5.  Adding^  subtracting,  multiplying  and  dividing 
by  2,  orally,  as  far  as  20. 

Second. 

1.  Reading  and  spelling  to  the  end  of  1st  Eeader.  2. 
Printing  words  and  sentences  from  1st  Reader.  3.  Count- 
ing as  far  as  100.  4.  Writing  and  reading  figures  as  far 
as  1,000.  5.  Adding,  subtracting,  multiplying  and  divid- 
ing by  3,  4  and  5,  as  far  as  1,000.  6.  Writing  on  slates 
in  current  hand. 

Third. 

1.  Reading  and  spelling  to  the  eiid  of  2nd  Reader.  2. 
Copying  on  slates  the  lessons  of  the  Reader.  3.  Spelling, 
one-half  of  Primary  Spelling  Book.  4.  Writing  and  Read- 
ing figures  as  far  as  millions.  5.  Adding,  subtracting, 
multiplying  and  dividing  by  6,  7,  8  and  9.  6.  Writing  in 
Copy-book  I^o.  1.  7.  Oral  lessons  in  Geography,  including 
the  Maps  of  Maryland  and  the  United  States^ 

Fourth. 

1.  Reading  and  spelling  to  the  end  of  3rd  Reader.  2. 
Spelling — Primary  Spelling  Book  completed.  3.  Copying 
of  lessons  in  3rd  Reader.  4.  Elementary  Arithmetic, 
through  Long  Division  and  U.  S.  money.  5.  Writing — 
Copy-Book  No.  2.  6.  Geography — Oral  Lessons — Maps  of 
North  and  South  America.  T.  Grammar — Oral  Lessons — 
distinguishing  the  parts  of  speech,  and  the  different  kinds 
of  simple  sentences. 

Fifth. 

1.  Reading  and  Spelling  to  the  end  of  4th  Reader.  2. 
Writing  Lessons  in  4th  Reader  from  Dictation.  3.  Spelling 
— Advanced  Spelling  Book — one-half.  4.  Elementary  Arith- 
metic completed.  5.  Writing — Copy-books  Nos.  3  and  4. 
6.  Grammar — Oral  Lessons — Parsing  and  Analysis  of  easy 
sentences.  7.  Geography,  one-half  of  Intermediate  Geo- 
graphy. 


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Sixth. 

1.  Beading  and  Spelling  to  end  of  5th  Eeader,  alternate 
with  History  of  the  U.  S.  2.  Spelling — Advanced  Spelling 
Book  completed.  3.  Practical  Arithmetic  completed.  4. 
Writing — Copy-hooks  Nos.  5  and  6.  5.  Grammar — Ele- 
mentary Grammar  completed.  6.  Geography^ — "Interme- 
diate" completed.     7.  Easy  Lessons  in  Composition. 

Time  Table. 

Each  grade  may  have  four  daily  recitations,  as  follows : 

1st,  one  lesson  of  15  minutes  and  3  of  10  minutes  each  =  45  minutes. 

2d,        "  "       ;  "  ''  ''    =^45 

3rd,       'I  "  "  ."  .  ''    =45 

4tli  two  lessons  of  15  minutes  each  and  2  of  10  "    =  50        *' 

5th        "  "  "  "  "    =50 

6th,  one  lesson  of  20  minutes  and  3  of  15  minutes  each  =  65        " 

The  available  portion  of  the  remaining  hour,  and  the 

time  that  may  he  gained  by  the  absence  of  all  pupils  in  any 

grade,  may  be  spent  in  general  exercises,  or  in  studies  above 

the  6th  grade,  when  there  are  pupils  sufficiently  advanced. 

ABTICLE  YIII. 

CHILDREN,  PARENTS  AND  GUARDIANS. 

1.  No  pupil  will  be  admitted  under  six  years  of  age,  nor 
unless  properly  vaccinated,  and  free  from  contagious  dis- 
ease, and  decently  and  comfortably  clothed. 

2.  The  use  of  profane  or  unchaste  language,  the  use  of 
tobacco  in  any  form,  and  the  carrying 'of  fire-arms  or  other 
dangerous  weapons,  are  strictly  forbidden  ;  and  any  pupil 
persistently  violating  this  rule  shall  be  suspended  by  the 
teacher,  and  the  case  reported  to  the  District  Trustees. 

3.  Parents  or  guardians  will  be  required  to  replace  or 
pay  for  all  books  belonging  to  the  County  School  Board 
retained,  destroyed  or  lost  by  their  children  or  wards  ;  they 
will  also  be  held  responsible  and  required  to  pay  for  all 
damage  done  by  their  children  or  wards  to  school-houses_, 
furniture,  trees,  fences,  &c. 


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4.  All  messages  sent  from  parents  or  guardians  to 
teachers,  (and  from  teachers  to  parents  or  guardians),  shall 
be  in  writing. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

1.  All  the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  any  County 
School  Board  for  the  government  of  schools  and  the  guidance 
to  teachers,  not  at  variance  with  the  Public  School  Law  or 
the  By-Laws  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  shall  be  duly 
observed  by  all  parties  under  the  authority  of  said  County 
School  Board. 

2.  The  word  ^^  Teacher  "  in  these  By-Laws  shall  be  un- 
derstood to  include  men  and  women  teachers. 

3.  Any  addition  or  alteration  which  may  be  made  from 
time  to  time  in  these  By-Laws,  shall  be  published  in  the 
Maryland  School  Journal,  and  said  publication  shall  be 
considered  sufficient  notice  to  teachers  and  all  parties  con- 
cerned. 


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